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CHAPTER VIII
Final Clauses
18. Allied Powers, for the purposes of the present treaty, shall be deemed to be those States at war or in a state of belligerency with Japan and which become parties to the present treaty.
19. Except for the provisions of Article 11, the present treaty shall not confer any rights, title or benefits to or upon any State unless and until it signs and ratifies, or adheres to, this treaty; nor, with that exception, shall any right, title and interest of Japan be deemed to be diminished or prejudiced by any provision hereof in favour of a State which does not sign and ratify, or adhere to, this treaty.
20. Japan will not make a peace settlement or war-claims settlement with any State which would grant that State greater advantages than contemplated by the present treaty to be granted to the parties hereto.
21. The present treaty shall be ratified by the Allied Powers and by Japan and will come into force as between Japan and other ratifying States when instruments of ratification by Japan and by a majority, including the United States of America as the principal occupying Power, of the States which are members of the Far Eastern Commission have been deposited with the Government of the United States of America. If such coming into force has not occurred within nine months after ratification by Japan, then any Allied Power may at its election bring the treaty into force as between itself and Japan by notification to Japan and to the Govern- ment of the United States of America. The Government of the United States of America of all ratifications deposited and of all notifications received pursuant to this Article.
22. Any State, not a signatory to the present treaty, which is at war or in a state of belligerage with Fapan may adhere to the present treaty ay pige fith&17
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The present treaty shall be deposited in the archives of the Government of the United States of America, which shall furnish certified copies to each of the signatories, and shall notify them and any acceding States of the receipt and date of deposit of all instruments of ratification and of the date of the coming into force of the treaty.
In faith whereof
Done at
in the English
and Japanese
languages, the English text being authentic, this
day
1951.
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